Kari Kuukka has been a professional photographer and photojournalist for 25 years and has worked for the majority of national publications and agencies in Finland as well as wide clientele abroad.

Kuukka is presently mostly known as a sports specialist and he has covered e.g. the last six Olympic Games. He has been awarded several times for his work – and during the past six years he has focused more and more on multimedia storytelling.

Photo: Johanna Karttunen

In addition to Kuukka’s own photography, he teaches photography, video and multimedia storytelling in three different universities. He is also well known for his writing and public stance defending photographers and their right to maintain the copyright of their own work – as more and more publishers are very aggressively pushing the “exclusive rights to the publisher” -deals to freelancers.

Kuukka works independently as a freelancer and manages his own multimedia company – the first of its kind in Finland.